This course meets Monday and Wednesday afternoons from 1:30-2:50pm. Meetings are usually held in the CMU Hunt Library Black Box (HL A10A), and occasionally in the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (CFA-111).
GOOGLE CALENDAR (link to Google doc)
This schedule is tentative and subject to change.
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Mon 08/31 No class session.
Wed 09/01 Course Introduction.
Technologies I (Beginnings):
* Shadowgrams
* Camera Lucida
* Camera Obscura
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Mon 09/07 No class session (Labor Day)
Wed 09/09 Guest lecture (tentative):
* Alex Oliver: Early History of Photography
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Mon 09/14 Guest lecture (confirmed):
* Jeff Hinkelman: The Dynamic Still Life
* References on the documentation of objects
Wed 09/16 Meetings about projects;
Technologies II/III
* Hyperspectral imaging
* Photogrammetry
* Depth sensing
* Light field imaging
* Reflectometry
* Scale (Microscopy, Telescopy)
* Overcranking (Slow-Motion)
* Undercranking and Time Lapse
* Long Exposure and Light Painting
* Bullet Time (Array Videography)
* Pixillation and Stop-Frame Animation
* Backwards (Retrograde) Time
* Looping (Canon) Time
* Slit-Scanning
* Stroboscopy
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Mon 09/21 In-class work session
Working dinner at the STUDIO
Wed 09/23 PROJECT 1 (OBJECT) DUE; CRITIQUE.
Thu 09/24 Guest Lecture: Allahyari+Rourke (5:00pm, CFA-111)
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Mon 09/28 Guest lecture (confirmed): Kyle McDonald
Wed 09/30 Technologies IV (Body & Gesture):
* Silhouettes & Blob Tracking
* The Kinect skeleton
* 3D Mocap laboratory
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Mon 10/05 Guest lecture (confirmed):
* Jeff Hinkelman: The Dynamic Portrait
Technologies V (Facial capture)
* Viola/Jones, Saraghi, FaceShift
Wed 10/07 Technologies VI (Gesture)
* Other 2D & 3D motion capture systems
(Mouse, Pen, Wii, Phantom, Leap, LIDAR, GPS,
Eyetribe, Flock of Birds, Sparkfun 9DOF, etc.)
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Mon 10/12 Catch-up day (TBA)
Wed 10/14 In-class work session
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Sun 10/18 Working dinner at the STUDIO
Mon 10/19 TBA.
Wed 10/21 PROJECT 2 (PERSON) DUE; CRITIQUE.
// Reschedule: Hinkelman: The Dynamic Landscape
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Mon 10/26 Guest visitors (confirmed): Specular.cc
(James George, Alex Porter, & Mei-Ling Wong)
Wed 10/28 Guest visitors (confirmed): Specular.cc
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Mon 11/02 Technologies VII
* Panoramic imaging
* HDR imaging
Wed 11/04 Guest lecture (confirmed):
* Jesse Stiles: Experimental Sound Capture
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Mon 11/09 TBD.
Wed 11/11 TBD.
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Mon 11/16 In-class Work session
Tue 11/17 Working dinner at the STUDIO
Wed 11/18 PROJECT 3 (PLACE) DUE; CRITIQUE.
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Mon 11/23 Individual meetings (Capstone planning)
Wed 11/25 No class session (Thanksgiving)
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Mon 11/30 In-class work session
Wed 12/02 In-class work session or Guest Lecture (TBD)
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Mon 12/07 In-class work session
Tue 12/08 Working dinner at the STUDIO
Wed 12/09 CAPSTONE DUE; FINAL EXHIBITION
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Mon 12/14 Deadline for all documentation (5pm)
As yet unscheduled: Yasir Sheikh, Kayvon Fatahalian...